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<blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 521355" data-attributes="member: 5990"><p>It's Classical, from Ancient Greek natural philosophy, adamas being the usual noun form. The sense was of the hardest material in nature, but it's often difficult to identify Classical names of materials with minerals now known. It probably often referred to some type of hard iron (perhaps even steel) as well as what we now call diamond, and probably a number of other things as well. "Diamond" comes from a variant form of the term. </p><p>Modern sci-fi often sticks -ium/-ite on it to make it sound more technical, but "adamantine" goes back to Classical times as the adjective meaning "like adamant." Traditionally, the noun form is just "adamant" but the usage has become muddled by er... non-standard usage among certain genre authors.</p><p>Plato refers to it in the Timaeus <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0180:div1=Tim.:section=59b" target="_blank">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0180:div1=Tim.:section=59b</a></p><p>and elsewhere</p><p><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0172:div1=Stat.:section=303e" target="_blank">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0172:div1=Stat.:section=303e</a></p><p>For other references, see</p><p><a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%231145" target="_blank">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=#1145</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tarchon, post: 521355, member: 5990"] It's Classical, from Ancient Greek natural philosophy, adamas being the usual noun form. The sense was of the hardest material in nature, but it's often difficult to identify Classical names of materials with minerals now known. It probably often referred to some type of hard iron (perhaps even steel) as well as what we now call diamond, and probably a number of other things as well. "Diamond" comes from a variant form of the term. Modern sci-fi often sticks -ium/-ite on it to make it sound more technical, but "adamantine" goes back to Classical times as the adjective meaning "like adamant." Traditionally, the noun form is just "adamant" but the usage has become muddled by er... non-standard usage among certain genre authors. Plato refers to it in the Timaeus [url]http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0180:div1=Tim.:section=59b[/url] and elsewhere [url]http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0172:div1=Stat.:section=303e[/url] For other references, see [url]http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%231145[/url] [/QUOTE]
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